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Daniil Baturin
Posted 3 Apr, 2025

VyOS 1.4.2 release

Hello, Community! VyOS 1.4.2 release images and the corresponding source tarball are now available for download to customers and holders of contributor subscrip...
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Daniil Baturin
Posted 27 Mar, 2025

VyOS Project March 2025 Update

Hello, Community! It's spring in the northern hemisphere, and here's the March update. A lot of our effort is currently going into the development of the accele...
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Daniil Baturin
Posted 18 Mar, 2025

VyOS 1.3 has reached End of Life

VyOS 1.3.x series has reached End of Life and will no longer be maintained from now on. We encourage everyone who still uses it to upgrade to VyOS 1.4.x release...
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Santiago Blanquet
Posted 7 Mar, 2025

MWC Barcelona 2025 Recap: A Week of Innovation & Open-Source Networking

Another MWC Barcelona has come to an end, and what a week it has been! VyOS Networks was proud to be part of one of the most important global gatherings in the ...
Daniil Baturin
Posted 27 Feb, 2025

VyOS Project Update February 2025

Hello, Community! February was a busy month for us: we merged the initial implementation of an accelerated dataplane into the rolling release branch, added a re...
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Daniil Baturin
Posted 20 Feb, 2025

VyOS Stream 1.5-2025-Q1 is available for download

Hello, Сommunity! VyOS Stream 1.5-2025-Q1 and its corresponding source tarball are now available for download. You may remember our announcement a while ago, bu...
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Daniil Baturin
Posted 30 Jan, 2025

VyOS Project January 2025 Update

Hello, Community! January is usually a quiet month, but there's quite a lot of important work that VyOS maintainers and community contributors have done already...
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Daniil Baturin
Posted 30 Dec, 2024

VyOS Project December 2024 Update

Hello, Community! The December update is here! The biggest highlight of this month is the 1.4.1 release but there was lots of work in the rolling release as wel...
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Daniil Baturin
Posted 20 Dec, 2024

VyOS 1.4.1 release

Hello, Community! VyOS 1.4.1 release is now available to customers and community members with contributor subscriptions. Its source code is available as a tarba...
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Daniil Baturin
Posted 29 Nov, 2024

VyOS Project November 2024 Update

Hello, Community! The November update is here. This post is short, but not all we've done lately: many internal changes in the configuration system will soon si...
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Daniil Baturin
Posted 30 Oct, 2024

VyOS Project October 2024 Update

Hello, Community! The October update, which summarizes our work in September, is here. The maintainers and community contributors were busy: four new features, ...
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Daniil Baturin
Posted 24 Oct, 2024

Remote code execution in listening Zabbix agent (CVE-2023-32728)

Hello, Community! Our community member Fabian Riechsteiner brought to our attention that the version of the Zabbix agent present in VyOS 1.4.0 is susceptible to...
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Fernando Maidana
Posted 8 Oct, 2024

VyOS Universal Router on Azure and Accelerated Networking

Greetings, Community! I'm back with an exciting topic: Azure Accelerated Networking and its integration with VyOS Universal Router. In this discussion, we'll de...
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Yuriy Andamasov
Posted 7 Oct, 2024

VyOS for communities affected by hurricane Helene

Hello, Community! Hurricane Helene caused enormous devastation and many deaths in North America. We keep getting updates, and it looks terrible. Now, Hurricane ...
Daniil Baturin
Posted 22 Sep, 2024

VyOS Project September 2024 Update

Hello, Community! Summer is over now, and many people are returning to their routines. Check out what we've done in the last month of the summer: that includes ...
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Daniil Baturin
Posted 27 Aug, 2024

VyOS Project August 2024 Update

Hello, Community! This month's development news includes many bug fixes and features, including remote access IPsec using VTI interfaces, support for WPA enterp...
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Daniil Baturin
Posted 26 Jul, 2024

VyOS Project July 2024 Update

Hello, Сommunity! This summer is anything but a slow news season, but if you need a break from world events, here's a VyOS development update for you — a purely...
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Daniil Baturin
Posted 1 Jul, 2024

CVE-2024-6387 (regreSSHion)

Hello, Community! Today Qualys's security team has disclosed a remotely exploitable vulnerability in OpenSSH server. It was assigned CVE-2024-6387 number and ni...
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Daniil Baturin
Posted 27 Jun, 2024

Introducing VyOS Stream — a next step in the VyOS project evolution

Hello, Community! Historically, we had two types of branches — rolling (current) and LTS branches. When we started working on a new LTS release, its branch woul...
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Daniil Baturin
Posted 25 Jun, 2024

VyOS 1.3.8 maintenance release

Hello, Сommunity! VyOS 1.3.8 maintenance release is now available for download for subscribers and contributors. This is a maintenance release with just a few b...
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VyOS Developer Erkin Batu Altunbas
Posted 20 Jun, 2024

VyOS Project June 2024 Update

Hello, Community! Now that VyOS 1.4.0/Sagitta is officially available as a new LTS release, it's time to start looking into the future again — what will VyOS 1....
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Daniil Baturin
Posted 4 Jun, 2024

VyOS 1.4.0 GA release

Hello, Community! The VyOS 1.4.0 release has finally reached general availability. Its configuration syntax and API are frozen for any changes now— we can add n...
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Fernando Maidana
Posted 3 Jun, 2024

Hybrid Cloud Network Success Story: AWS Cloud WAN integration with VyOS

Hello, Community! I'm Fernando from the network engineering team at VyOS Networks, and I'd like to introduce an insightful customer success story in our series ...
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Taras Pudiak
Posted 30 May, 2024

VyOS VPP addon technology preview is available now

Hello, Community! We are excited to announce major updates on integrating the VPP data plane. Since our last update, significant efforts have been dedicated to ...
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Daniil Baturin
Posted 29 May, 2024

Phorge (vyos.dev) maintenance on Wednesday night

Hello, Сommunity! Remember that we did some maintenance last week. Overall, it was a success, but the work on our Phorge task tracker at vyos.dev required more ...
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Daniil Baturin
Posted 22 May, 2024

VyOS infrastructure maintenance and downtime

Hello, Сommunity!
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VyOS Developer Erkin Batu Altunbas
Posted 21 May, 2024

VyOS Project May 2024 Update

Hello, Community! Lately, we have all been busy preparing the 1.4.0-epa3 release that will transition to GA status in two weeks if no serious issues are found, ...
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Yuriy Andamasov
Posted 16 May, 2024

VyOS is featured in GigaOm Radar reports for network operating systems

Hello, Community! This year, VyOS is featured in GigaOm Radar reports on disaggregated network operating systems again, this time as a challenger and outperform...
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Daniil Baturin
Posted 14 May, 2024

VyOS 1.4.0-epa3 release

Hello, Сommunity! The VyOS 1.4.0-epa3 (Early Production Access) release is now available to subscribers. It includes a fix for CVE-2024-2961 — the recently disc...
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Daniil Baturin
Posted 13 May, 2024

VyOS 1.3.7 release

Hello, Community! VyOS 1.3.7/Equuleus maintenance release is available now. It fixes the buffer overflow vulnerability recently discovered in GNU libc (CVE-2024...
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Daniil Baturin
Posted 10 May, 2024

Introducing the image build flavor system

Hello, Community! Building customized images of VyOS for different platforms has become much easier now. The last bit of the revamped build flavor system has fa...
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Daniil Baturin
Posted 7 May, 2024

Pull request creation guidelines

Hello, Community! We are always glad to see new contributors, and we are happy to make an effort to help them get started and feel valued, which is why we make ...
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Yuriy Andamasov
Posted 25 Apr, 2024

Community, Contributors, User Base and LTS builds

Hello, Сommunity! Recently, there have been a lot of questions about LTS release-building procedures. We are making changes in that area — not least due to spec...
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Daniil Baturin
Posted 16 Apr, 2024

Feature requests and bug reports

Hello, Community! We haven't had clear guidelines on when and how to create suitable tasks in our Phorge development portal for a long time. As the community gr...
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VyOS Developer Erkin Batu Altunbas
Posted 11 Apr, 2024

VyOS Project April 2024 Update

Hello, Сommunity! In March, we made many minor improvements to existing features. Still, there are some significant features: many new services are available fo...
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Daniil Baturin
Posted 2 Apr, 2024

xz backdoor, netfilter vulnerability, and a rolling release signing key leak

Hello, Community! There were quite a few security incidents lately that caught everyone's attention. Thankfully, none had any real impact on VyOS security, but ...
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VyOS Developer Erkin Batu Altunbas
Posted 22 Mar, 2024

VyOS Project March 2024 Update

Hello, Community! While VyOS 1.4/Sagitta has taken its final shape, and we are working to smoothen any remaining sharp edges (especially in migration scripts), ...
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Daniil Baturin
Posted 15 Mar, 2024

VyOS 1.4.0-epa2

Hello, Community! VyOS 1.4.0-epa2 image is now available to customers and contributors (and everyone can build it from the sagitta branch of vyos-build, of cour...
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Daniil Baturin
Posted 22 Feb, 2024

VyOS 1.4.0 (Sagitta) LTS release

Hello, Community! We are happy to announce that the VyOS 1.4.0-epa1 image is now available to customers and contributors (and everyone can build it from the sag...
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Daniil Baturin
Posted 14 Feb, 2024

VyOS 1.3.6 maintenance release

Hello, community! VyOS 1.3.6 LTS release is here — with many bug fixes and security updates. The most important are fixes for denial of service vulnerabilities ...
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VyOS Developer Erkin Batu Altunbas
Posted 8 Feb, 2024

VyOS Project February 2024 Update

Hello, community! Curious what we've been up to in January? Our main focus is the final stabilization of the 1.4.0/Sagitta branch, and we will soon make the fir...
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Santiago Blanquet
Posted 1 Feb, 2024

Join VyOS at FOSDEM 2024 (Feb 3-4)

Hello, community! We're thrilled to announce that VyOS will be part of FOSDEM 2024, one of the most significant and vibrant events in the open-source world. We'...
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Daniil Baturin
Posted 22 Jan, 2024

VyOS 1.4.0-rc3 release candidate

Hello, Community! VyOS 1.4.0-rc3 image is now available for everyone to download and test. We are grateful to everyone who helped us test previously release can...
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Santiago Blanquet
Posted 17 Jan, 2024

Thrilled to announce that VyOS is exhibiting at #MWC24

Hello Community! Thrilled to announce that VyOS is exhibiting at #MWC24 – the world’s largest and most influential connectivity event. Be first to see our lates...
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VyOS Developer Erkin Batu Altunbas
Posted 11 Jan, 2024

VyOS Project January 2024 Update

Hello, Community! The new monthly development update is here. Quite a few of these changes were already mentioned in the 1.4.0-rc1 release candidate post, but q...
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Daniil Baturin
Posted 22 Dec, 2023

VyOS 1.4.0-rc1 release candidate

Hello, community! Exactly two years ago we made the VyOS 1.3.0/Equuleus LTS release. Now, after two years of development, the upcoming 1.4.0/Sagitta release has...
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Daniil Baturin
Posted 15 Dec, 2023

VyOS 1.3.5 security release

Hello, Сommunity! VyOS 1.3.5/Equuleus LTS release is now officially available for download for customers and contributors. It includes fixes for two security vu...
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Christian Pössinger
Posted 13 Dec, 2023

EVPN-VXLAN Enhancements - Introducing Single VXLAN Device Support

Hello, fellow VyOS community members, this is Christian again! it has been some time, but now I am back with a new post about EVPN-VXLAN networks built on VyOS....
Joe Nguyen
Posted 5 Dec, 2023

VyOS ASCII Art Contest

Hello VyOS Community! The VyOS ASCII art contest is here, and we invite everyone to help us make a new default login banner for VyOS.
VyOS Developer Erkin Batu Altunbas
Posted 30 Nov, 2023

VyOS Project December 2023 update

Hello, community! While we are now mostly busy with stabilizing the future 1.4.0 LTS release and also working on the new 1.3.5 maintenance release, there's stil...
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Yuriy Andamasov
Posted 24 Nov, 2023

New book by Daniil Baturin: Linux for System Administrators

Hello, Community! Many people from our generation, including myself and VyOS maintainers and contributors, learned about Linux from books. At the time, there wa...
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Taras Pudiak
Posted 21 Nov, 2023

VyOS and VPP - progress and plans

A few months ago, attentive readers may have seen in the blog post that in rolling releases we included the VPP data plane. Most attentive may also notice that ...
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Yuriy Andamasov
Posted 15 Nov, 2023

VyOS LTS Support Policy

Hello, Community! Now that the 1.3.4 LTS release is over and the upcoming 1.4.0 release is on its path to the first early production access release, we'd like t...
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VyOS Developer Erkin Batu Altunbas
Posted 8 Nov, 2023

VyOS Project November 2023 update

Hello, Community! Curious what we've been up to lately? Here's the update for November: it includes the removal of the long de-facto deprecated cluster feature ...
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Daniil Baturin
Posted 17 Oct, 2023

VyOS 1.3.4 LTS release

Hello, Community! VyOS 1.3.4/Equuleus release is now officially available for download for customers and contributors. It includes a number of small features an...
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Daniil Baturin
Posted 12 Oct, 2023

What's left to do for 1.4 LTS? New zone-based firewall and more

Hello, Community! Many people ask us when VyOS 1.4 will become a stable release. Some people have even started using development builds of the Sagitta branch in...
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VyOS Developer Erkin Batu Altunbas
Posted 5 Oct, 2023

VyOS Project October 2023 Update

Hello, Community! September was quite the hectic month for us, not only because of the upcoming release of VyOS 1.4 Sagitta (you may have noticed the new branch...
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Daniil Baturin
Posted 26 Sep, 2023

What's coming for OpenVPN in VyOS 1.4?

Hello, Community! OpenVPN is one of the oldest open-source VPN protocols and implementations. It took the world by storm in the early 2000s because it was a hug...
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VyOS Developer Erkin Batu Altunbas
Posted 14 Sep, 2023

VyOS Project September 2023 Update

Hello, community! We're back with an end-of-summer update. We've been quite busy cleaning up legacy code, fixing bugs, and adding remaining features planned for...
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Yuriy Andamasov
Posted 1 Sep, 2023

10 years of VyOS, 30 years of Debian, 40 years of GNU

Hello, Community! This year is a year of three anniversaries that are very important for us. In October, VyOS turns 10. In August, Debian turned 30; in Septembe...
VyOS Developer Erkin Batu Altunbas
Posted 10 Aug, 2023

VyOS Project August 2023 Update

Hello, Сommunity! Summer may be supposed to be a quiet season, but there's quite some work that VyOS maintainers and contributors managed to do in July, nonethe...
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Daniil Baturin
Posted 27 Jul, 2023

Zenbleed and OpenSSH agent vulnerabilities and their impact on VyOS

Hello, Community! Recently, two severe vulnerabilities were discovered by security researchers. One of them is nicknamed Zenbleed (CVE-2023-20593) and affects a...
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Daniil Baturin
Posted 14 Jul, 2023

VyOS Project July 2023 Update

Hello, Сommunity! We hope you enjoy your summer! In June, there was a lot of work done on VyOS. Why is this update so short, then? One reason is that VyOS 1.4 i...
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Daniil Baturin
Posted 22 Jun, 2023

VyOS 1.3.3 LTS release

Hello, Community! VyOS 1.3.3 (Equuleus) LTS release is now available for download to subscribers and contributors. The interval between 1.3.2 (released in the p...
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VyOS Developer Erkin Batu Altunbas
Posted 5 Jun, 2023

VyOS project June 2023 update

Hello, community! We constantly develop VyOS, even if we don't always share updates. Currently, we're focused on the 1.3.3 LTS release, which should be out thes...
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VyOS Developer Erkin Batu Altunbas
Posted 27 Apr, 2023

VyOS project April 2023 update

Hello, Community! We haven't posted development updates lately, but that's just because there were lots of things to do, not because development has slowed down...
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Yuriy Andamasov
Posted 17 Apr, 2023

VyOS support portal migration is complete

Hello Community! The support portal migration that we announced on Friday is now complete. The new FreshDesk platform will help us offer our customers and suppo...
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Yuriy Andamasov
Posted 14 Apr, 2023

VyOS support portal migration

Dear VyOS Community, This weekend (from Apr 15 10:00 UTC till Apr 16 18:00 UTC ), we will migrate the support portal to a new platform. We have done quite a lot...
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Daniil Baturin
Posted 22 Mar, 2023

VyOS 1.2.9-S1 maintenance release

Hello, community! VyOS 1.2.9-S1 maintenance and security release is now available for download to everyone. We planned 1.2.9 to become the last 1.2.x release un...
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Yuriy Andamasov
Posted 5 Mar, 2023

VyOS in 2023: multi-year subscriptions, future plans, and more

Hello, Community! This mail contains essential information about subscriptions. We are already two months into 2023 and expect this year to impact the VyOS proj...
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Yuriy Andamasov
Posted 10 Feb, 2023

VyOS is now on AWS Outposts and Azure Stack Hub

Hello Community! We have not posted much lately, but the work backstage never stops. We keep working on the 1.4 release that should become the new LTS later thi...
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Yuriy Andamasov
Posted 24 Dec, 2022

Community support for open-source and why it's important

Hello, Community and happy winter holidays to all! VyOS 1.2.9, the last routine GA release in the 1.2.x line. It may not be the last release in that line in gen...
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Daniil Baturin
Posted 2 Dec, 2022

VyOS 1.2.9 maintenance release

Hello, Community! VyOS 1.2.9, the last planned maintenance release of the Crux branch, is now available for subscribers to download. This marks the end of the G...
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Daniil Baturin
Posted 23 Nov, 2022

VyOS Project November 2022 Update

Hello, community! If you are wondering what we've been up to — we are on track to bring the 1.4/Sagitta release to its final shape and we are pretty sure next y...
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Daniil Baturin
Posted 3 Nov, 2022

Recent OpenSSL vulnerabilities do not affect any VyOS versions

Many people are concerned about recently announced OpenSSL vulnerabilities (CVE-2022-3786 and CVE-2022-3602). However, none of the VyOS versions ever released a...
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Daniil Baturin
Posted 9 Oct, 2022

VyOS Project October 2022 Update

Hello, community! @e added new firewall options, improved NAT66, brought IPv4 network mapping back, and fixed a whole bunch of bugs, and rewrote multiple operat...
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Yuriy Andamasov
Posted 23 Sep, 2022

VyOS Sundays #2: join us on September the 25th, 16:00 UTC

Hello Community! In our live stream, we'll discuss the following topics: OpenCollective and its role in our project. The distinction between "free as in price" ...
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Daniil Baturin
Posted 13 Sep, 2022

The future of VyOS image signature verification

There's one thing about our releases that we introduced quietly and neglected to explain to those unfamiliar with it: minisign signatures. Let's discuss why we ...
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Daniil Baturin
Posted 7 Sep, 2022

VyOS 1.3.2 LTS release

Hello, community! VyOS 1.3.2 LTS release is now available for subscribers to download and for everyone to build. It features over a dozen improvements and about...
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Daniil Baturin
Posted 30 Aug, 2022

VyOS Project July 2022 Update

Hello, Community! It is time for a new update! The most important news this time includes FRR upgrade to the latest stable version 8.3, RADIUS QoS attribute sup...
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Daniil Baturin
Posted 21 Aug, 2022

Writing VyOS operational mode commands just got better!

Hello, Community! Writing scripts for operational mode commands used to require quite a bit of tedious to handle sub-commands and options, and there were no gui...
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Yuriy Andamasov
Posted 3 Aug, 2022

Professional Access Subscriptions are now retired

Dear Subscribers, Professional subscriptions are now completely retired and can no longer be renewed. However, you can upgrade them to Corporate with a 50% to 7...
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Yuriy Andamasov
Posted 31 Jul, 2022

Reusing existing hardware: let’s build a community HCL!

Hello Community! The hardware crisis isn’t getting any better. If anything, there’s a chance that it’s only the beginning. It’s not yet certain whether high pri...
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Daniil Baturin
Posted 29 Jul, 2022

VyOS Project June 2022 Update

Hello, community! It's been a while since our last update, so it is time for the progress update for June. Our schedule was definitely disrupted, but we never s...
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VyOS Developer Erkin Batu Altunbas
Posted 4 May, 2022

Which VPN protocol to use

Hello Community! A question that often comes up in networking software discussions is "which VPN protocol should I use?" followed by "why should I use that one ...
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Yuriy Andamasov
Posted 5 Apr, 2022

Let’s meet at the MSP Summit and the Channel Partners Conference & Expo in Las Vegas on April 11-14!

Hello! In 2022 non-virtual events are returning to life. During the summer and fall, we will see a lot of classic conferences produced in hybrid rather than pur...
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Daniil Baturin
Posted 30 Mar, 2022

VyOS 1.3.1-S1 security release

Hello Community! VyOS 1.3.1-S1 security release is now available to customers and contributors to download, and everyone can build it from the source. It fixes ...
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Daniil Baturin
Posted 21 Mar, 2022

VyOS 1.3.1 release

Hello, Community VyOS 1.3.1 release is now available: subscribers (customers and contributors) can download binary images from the support portal, and everyone ...
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Daniil Baturin
Posted 16 Mar, 2022

CVE-2022-0778: remote DoS in OpenSSL, VyOS 1.3.0 is affected

Hello Community! Yesterday the OpenSSL team disclosed a remote DoS vulnerability in OpenSSL versions 1.0.2, 1.1.1, and 3.0. You can find a complete description ...
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Yuriy Andamasov
Posted 27 Feb, 2022

Global security issue with Russian Federation invasion into Ukraine

Hello Community! The VyOS team, just like our project, is highly distributed, with people, both employees and community members in multiple countries worldwide,...
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Yuriy Andamasov
Posted 2 Jan, 2022

VyOS on Open Collective

Hello Community! Happy New Year to you and your families! And the beginning of a new year is an excellent time to make improvements that will help our community...
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Daniil Baturin
Posted 21 Dec, 2021

VyOS 1.3.0 LTS release

VyOS 1.3.0 (Equuleus) is now GA, and images are available to our customers and contributors. After three years in development and an extended-release candidate/...
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Daniil Baturin
Posted 14 Dec, 2021

Log4Shell vulnerability

Hello Community! Everyone is talking about the CVE-2021-44228 vulnerability recently found in the Log4j logging library, which was nicknamed Log4Shell because i...
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Daniil Baturin
Posted 12 Dec, 2021

VyOS Foundation—Work In Progress

Hello Community! You may remember that we were to set up a non-profit VyOS Foundation and that we started that process already back then. The progress wasn't ve...
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Daniil Baturin
Posted 5 Nov, 2021

VyOS 1.3.0-epa3 release

Hello! VyOS 1.3.0-epa3 release is available now. The generic ISO image is available publicly, while subscribers can access additional flavors through the suppor...
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Christian Pössinger
Posted 31 Oct, 2021

Using DMVPN and BGP to interconnect your sites

Hello, Community! Some weeks ago a very close friend of mine approached me and asked about an issue in his VyOS installation. He is using several WireGuard tunn...
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Daniil Baturin
Posted 18 Oct, 2021

VyOS 1.3.0-epa2 release

Hello Community! VyOS 1.3.0-epa2 release is available now. The generic ISO image is available publicly, while subscribers can access additional flavors through ...
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Daniil Baturin
Posted 15 Oct, 2021

Benefits for contributors and long-time customers and more

Hello, Community! Happy Friday! The VyOS 1.3.0-epa2 release is underway and we’d like to say thanks to everyone who contributes and makes that possible, by work...
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Daniil Baturin
Posted 30 Sep, 2021

VyOS 1.3.0-epa1 release

Hello, Community! VyOS 1.3.0-epa1 images are now available for download. The “epa” suffix stands for “early production access”—the finish line of the new LTS re...
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Yuriy Andamasov
Posted 19 Sep, 2021

The future of VyOS, part 4: Governance

The future of VyOS, part 4: Governance Hello Community! This is the last article from the series about VyOS future and it's about project governance. I planned ...
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VyOS Developer Erkin Batu Altunbas
Posted 24 Aug, 2021

Writing migration scripts

As VyOS evolves, so does its CLI. Obsolete features get deprecated over time and new features replace older ones. Thus, the configuration syntax evolves in tand...
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Daniil Baturin
Posted 24 Aug, 2021

VyOS 1.3.0-rc6, the last release candidate

Hello Community! VyOS 1.3.0-rc6 release candidate image is now available for download. Quite some time passed between 1.3.0-rc5 and this release, mostly due to ...
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Taras Pudiak
Posted 15 Aug, 2021

Automation for VyOS in Microsoft Azure Cloud

Hello, People! Microsoft Azure is one of the biggest cloud service providers nowadays. VyOS is featured as Microsoft preferred solution and many Azure users are...
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VyOS Developer Erkin Batu Altunbas
Posted 8 Aug, 2021

VyOS Project July 2021 Update

Hi again! It's time for the progress update for the month of July. We are still on the road to the 1.3.0-epa1 release that will mark the transition of the 1.3/E...
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Christian Pössinger
Posted 1 Aug, 2021

PKI and IPSec IKEv2 remote-access VPN

Hello! VyOS was always strong in supporting a multitude of different VPN techniques ranging from old school IPsec site-to-site/DMVPN setups to new kids on the b...
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VyOS Developer Erkin Batu Altunbas
Posted 22 Jul, 2021

VyOS Project May/June 2021 Update

Hello everyone, it's time for the progress update for the months of May and June. We've been a bit too busy with working on the code that we forgot to post a pr...
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Daniil Baturin
Posted 6 Jul, 2021

VyOS 1.2.8 and VyOS 1.3.0-rc5 are available

In this post, we announce not one, but two releases at once. First, VyOS 1.2.8 LTS release is available to subscribers and everyone is welcome to build their ow...
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Yuriy Andamasov
Posted 27 Jun, 2021

The future of VyOS, part 3: the business model

Hello Community! This is the third post in our series about the VyOS Project future and this time we'll talk about our business model, relationship with the com...
Yuriy Andamasov
Posted 13 Jun, 2021

The future of VyOS, part 2: the local GUI and the controller

Hello Community! The future of VyOS is bright! And we are happy to see more participants! In the previous post, we talked about the release schedule, and in thi...
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Daniil Baturin
Posted 6 Jun, 2021

The future of VyOS, part 1: release schedule

Hello Community! The future of VyOS is bright! And in this post series, we will talk about our plans for the VyOS Project. This first post focuses on the most i...
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VyOS Developer Erkin Batu Altunbas
Posted 16 May, 2021

VyOS Project April 2021 Update

Hello again! Another month has passed, and now it's time for the April update. The most important news of the past month includes a VyOS 1.3.0-rc4 release candi...
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Yuriy Andamasov
Posted 10 May, 2021

Migrating subscription management to Oracle NetSuite

Greetings! We have an important announcement for our subscribers. Currently, we are migrating our subscription management from a self-hosted WooCommerce install...
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Daniil Baturin
Posted 3 May, 2021

VyOS 1.3.0-rc4 release candidate is available

VyOS 1.3.0-rc4 release candidate is now officially available for free download. We invite everyone to test it and report any issues you may find. Remember that ...
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Yuriy Andamasov
Posted 29 Apr, 2021

Support portal maintenance has been completed successfully

Even though it took longer than we expected, we've successfully completed support portal maintenance and support.vyos.io is back online, so you can view and cre...
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Yuriy Andamasov
Posted 29 Apr, 2021

Support portal maintenance

Tomorrow (April the 29th) we are planning to do some maintenance on the support portal (support.vyos.io) that provides an interface to tickets, a knowledge base...
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Christian Pössinger
Posted 11 Apr, 2021

L3VPN EVPN with VyOS

Hello, fellow VyOS community members, this is Christian again! As promised in my last post about BGP L2VPN/EVPN support via VXLAN transport, this post is one of...
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VyOS Developer Erkin Batu Altunbas
Posted 8 Apr, 2021

VyOS Project February/March 2021 Update

Hi everyone! It's time for the spring update.
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Yuriy Andamasov
Posted 24 Mar, 2021

VyOS 1.2.7 release

Hello! VyOS 1.2.7 LTS release is now available to subscribers, and everyone can build an equivalent image from our repositories. This release took a while to co...
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Christian Pössinger
Posted 19 Mar, 2021

BGP L2VPN/EVPN support via VXLAN transport

Hello and Happy Friday My name is Christian, but you also may know me as c-po here at VyOS Project. I'm an experienced (Embedded) Linux developer with a deep pa...
Yuriy Andamasov
Posted 5 Mar, 2021

support.vyos.io issues

Hello.
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Daniil Baturin
Posted 26 Feb, 2021

VyOS 1.2.7-epa1 and 1.3.0-rc1 images are available

VyOS 1.2.7-epa1 First, VyOS 1.2.7-epa1 is now available to subscribers, and everyone can build an equivalent image from our repositories. It's a rather big rele...
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Daniil Baturin
Posted 2 Feb, 2021

VyOS Project January 2021 Update

The winter break is over and the first month of the new year has passed. As usual, we’ve been busy with improving VyOS and its infrastructure. The main highligh...
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VyOS Developer Erkin Batu Altunbas
Posted 28 Jan, 2021

Adding custom operational mode commands to VyOS

The operational mode (op mode for short) is half of the VyOS CLI, the other half being configuration mode (conf mode for short). Maintenance and administration ...
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VyOS Developer Erkin Batu Altunbas
Posted 21 Jan, 2021

Pipes in VyOS CLI

Unix pipes are an indispensable tool on a sysadmin’s belt. Eventually, it becomes second nature to build a pipeline of several tools to transform data and one o...
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Daniil Baturin
Posted 11 Jan, 2021

2020 recap and 2021 Q1 plan

Happy new year everyone! The year 2020 has been a productive year for VyOS. We are happy to see new contributors join and work with us; happy to see customers g...
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Yuriy Andamasov
Posted 30 Dec, 2020

VyOS on Azure achieves Microsoft co-Sell ready status

Hello! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! We are super excited to announce that VyOS on Microsoft Azure has achieved a Co-Sell Ready status with Microsoft. It’...
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Yuriy Andamasov
Posted 24 Dec, 2020

Merry Christmas and happy holidays!

Greetings!
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Yuriy Andamasov
Posted 14 Dec, 2020

VyOS LAB — VulcanBay unboxing and a holidays giveaway

Hi everyone, Here's something to brighten up this holidays season. First, we are going to do a live stream this Sunday where we'll reveal our new network perfor...
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Daniil Baturin
Posted 7 Dec, 2020

VyOS Project October/November 2020 Update

Hi everyone, This may be our most delayed update in history, but as they say, "better late than never". Early in November, United States elections have been a f...
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Yuriy Andamasov
Posted 30 Nov, 2020

Cyber Monday: more thanks, and more special offers

The season of greetings and special offers continues. In times like these, we think it's especially important to show gratitude to everyone who's helping us and...
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Yuriy Andamasov
Posted 26 Nov, 2020

Big thanks and special offers for the winter holidays

Hello and happy Thanksgiving! Winter holidays season is begun. This year isn't joyful one because of all that pandemic but It's been an important year for us at...
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Daniil Baturin
Posted 12 Oct, 2020

VyOS Project September 2020 Update

The biggest announcement of September was the 1.2.6 release, and we even skipped the August update while we've been busy with it and the automated release proce...
Daniil Baturin
Posted 28 Sep, 2020

VyOS 1.2.6-S1 security release

VyOS 1.2.6 release was found to be suspectible to CVE-2020-10995. It's a low-impact vulnerability in the PowerDNS recursor that allows an attacker to cause perf...
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Daniil Baturin
Posted 18 Sep, 2020

VyOS 1.2.6 maintenance release

VyOS 1.2.6 release is now available to our customers and contributors. VyOS 1.2.6 remains a fully supported branch and will not enter an extended support phase ...
Daniil Baturin
Posted 14 Aug, 2020

VyOS 1.2.6-epa1 is available

Prebuilt VyOS 1.2.6-epa1 image is available to subscribers! You can find it in the downloads section of the support portal.
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Daniil Baturin
Posted 10 Aug, 2020

VyOS Project July 2020 Update

More than a half of this year has passed. The year started busy for us and there’s no slowing down. We are glad to be helping people and companies stay connecte...
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Daniil Baturin
Posted 29 Jul, 2020

Reasons to choose an open source solution vendor

Recently I've stumbled upon a piece of FUD by SolarWinds that specifically mentions VyOS. VyOS, it says, "mimics well-known vendors and can be deployed in a lab...
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Daniil Baturin
Posted 16 Jul, 2020

VyOS Project June 2020 Update

As usual, we've been quite busy. First of all, sorry for the nonsensical "VyOS News Digest". The webmasters we hired to help us look after the social media acco...
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Yuriy Andamasov
Posted 3 Jul, 2020

VyOS News Digest June

This year June was slightly hotter than usual, nonetheless not only heatwaves caught our attention. We gathered fresh releases, long-awaited decisions, and unex...
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Daniil Baturin
Posted 1 Jul, 2020

Growing VyOS community and project side by side

There is a popular fiction that if you have a good project, a community automatically forms around it and gives it the publicity it deserves. In reality, it var...
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Daniil Baturin
Posted 14 Jun, 2020

Telemetry poll results and their implications

Our previous post regarding the prospect of introducing telemetry ended up pretty divisive. Apart from the sensitive nature of the topic itself, there were some...
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Daniil Baturin
Posted 29 May, 2020

Anonymous stats collection from VyOS routers: we need your opinions!

The T-word. Telemetry. Everyone hates it, not least because the most widely known implementations are unambiguously evil. We hate collection and sale of persona...
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Yuriy Andamasov
Posted 26 May, 2020

VyOS Project May 2020 Update

As usual, May was a busy month for VyOS. Originally we’ve planned a soft freeze of the 1.3 branches for early May, but it didn’t work as planned—in reality May ...
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Daniil Baturin
Posted 12 May, 2020

Images for labs, geeks and other non-production use

You might have noticed Patreon and BuyMeACoffee donate buttons. We introduced them silently, and we are happy to see people donating just because they want to s...
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Yuriy Andamasov
Posted 10 May, 2020

VyOS Foundation Announcement

As you may already know, the VyOS project was started as a response to the cancellation of Vyatta Core, an open-source version of Vyatta that we used and loved....
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Daniil Baturin
Posted 8 May, 2020

Is VyOS CLI fast yet?

Many people have noticed that in rolling release builds, everything was getting slower. Boot time, commit time, and even the time it takes to enter set commands...
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Daniil Baturin
Posted 3 May, 2020

VyOS Project April 2020 Update

Hello Community! Here is the April update from the VyOS project. Despite the global crisis, we are working on the project and expanding our services. There’s so...
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Daniil Baturin
Posted 26 Apr, 2020

VyOS Certification Discounts in May

When we announced the VyOS Certified Network Engineer exam, we said the first hundred applicants will get a 50% discount and need to pay only 100 EUR rather tha...
Yuriy Andamasov
Posted 24 Apr, 2020

VyOS and Nutanix collaboration moves to new level

Happy Friday! We hope you all are doing well and stay safe! While it´s all unfortunate situation, it should not hold us back. These days many companies need to ...
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Yuriy Andamasov
Posted 14 Apr, 2020

VyOS 1.2.5 maintenance release

VyOS 1.2.5 maintenance release is finally available. Subscribers can download it from the support portal, and everyone can build it from the Crux branch and clo...
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Daniil Baturin
Posted 11 Apr, 2020

Customizing Ubiquiti USG configuration with JSON just got easier

Ubiquiti USG (Unified Security Gateway) is a router and firewall appliance that is closely related to the EdgeMax product line, even though it's marketed as a p...
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Yuriy Andamasov
Posted 5 Apr, 2020

VyOS Certifications - VyOS Certified Networks Engineer (VCNE)

VyOS certifications for network engineers is one of the hot topics during the last years. Not only people were asking us when certification will be available, w...
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Daniil Baturin
Posted 23 Mar, 2020

VyOS Project March 2020 Update

As usual, we’ve been busy working on the 1.2.x LTS release and on the future 1.3.0 version. One important update is that VyOS 1.2.5-epa2 (early production acces...
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Yuriy Andamasov
Posted 16 Mar, 2020

VyOS team offer help for most affected by COVID-2019 outbreak

To contain the spread of the COVID-19 infection, many governments and organizations are now using unprecedented social distancing measures, such as switching en...
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Yuriy Andamasov
Posted 20 Feb, 2020

VyOS Project 2020 February Update

We skipped January update as we were busy, but time flies fast so here it is. February update, first in 2020 and with bunch updates!
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Yuriy Andamasov
Posted 27 Jan, 2020

VyOS for Australian companies

Hello! We want to help in recovering Australia after fires. so if you Australia-based, read below, and if not, read below anyway
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Daniil Baturin
Posted 14 Jan, 2020

VyOS Access subscriptions for documentation

Documentation, sadly, is a sour topic for many open source networking projects. Web frameworks and libraries, graphics software, sometimes even games have more ...
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Yuriy Andamasov
Posted 1 Jan, 2020

VyOS 1.2.4 release

Happy new year! I hope you all had a good rest while we preparing this release. It´s been a while from last 1.2.4 EPA but testing went pretty good. Thanks to al...
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Daniil Baturin
Posted 24 Dec, 2019

VyOS Project 2019 December Update

It's almost winter holidays time already! It's been a great year for VyOS, with many big improvements in the code, and more community contributions to the code ...
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Daniil Baturin
Posted 25 Nov, 2019

VyOS Project 2019 November Update

Welcome to the monthly round of VyOS project updates. What do we have in store for you?
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Yuriy Andamasov
Posted 29 Oct, 2019

VyOS Project 2019 October update

Everyone is probably aware that VyOS was built upon a codebase that hasn't aged well. VyOS 1.2.0 was all about a (sometimes painful) base system and codebase re...
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Daniil Baturin
Posted 4 Oct, 2019

Software and Support Subscriptions Update

Finally we have finished updating our website (there’s still an ongoing work on improving it though, and your suggestions are welcome!) And it's time to update ...
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Yuriy Andamasov
Posted 23 Sep, 2019

VyOS project news in September

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Yuriy Andamasov
Posted 5 Sep, 2019

VyOS 1.2.3 release

VyOS 1.2.3-epa1 ("early production access") release images are available for download for customers and active contributors, and everyone is welcome to build it...
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Daniil Baturin
Posted 5 Aug, 2019

VyOS Project 2019 August update

With cloud support, a simplified installation process, and a potentially much faster VPN, we can proudly say we’ve had a busy month. What can you expect from th...
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Daniil Baturin
Posted 15 Jul, 2019

VyOS 1.2.2 maintenance release

VyOS 1.2.2 maintenance release is now available. Our customers and active contributors who have a subscription can download the images from the support portal, ...
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Daniil Baturin
Posted 20 Jun, 2019

VyOS rolling release has got an HTTP API

In short: a prototype of an HTTP API is now included in the nightly builds and available for testing. Right now it requires some manual configuration to get run...
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Daniil Baturin
Posted 18 Jun, 2019

CVE-2019-11477 (TCP SACK panic) and an Intel i40e driver issue

Recently discovered vulnerability in the Linux kernel's TCP selective acknowledgement processing code potentially allows a remote attacker to cause a kernel pan...
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Daniil Baturin
Posted 17 Jun, 2019

VyOS Project 2019 - June update

The summer is often a slow news season, but we’ve got quite a few things to share. We’ve been slacking off on posting development news and keeping the community...
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Yuriy Andamasov
Posted 4 May, 2019

Support portal maintenance is over

Support portal maintenance is over now, you should be able to use portal as always Please let us know if you experiencing problems.
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Yuriy Andamasov
Posted 3 May, 2019

Support portal maintenance

We will perform support portal maintenance starting from 18:00 CEST and it will take up to 5 hours, during this period short interruptions can have place
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Yuriy Andamasov
Posted 16 Apr, 2019

VyOS 1.2.1 release

We have just released VyOS 1.2.1. The images are available to subscribers and public clouds images submitted, and if you build an image from the Crux branch now...
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Daniil Baturin
Posted 4 Apr, 2019

Google Season of Docs

Everyone knows about the Google Summer of Code program, but now there's more. Recently they announced a new program called Season of Docs. It matches technical ...
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Yuriy Andamasov
Posted 18 Mar, 2019

VyOS Project 2019 - March Update

Hello, Gents! It’s been a while from the last update so I thought it’s a good time to share some news. The team is busy as always, so much done already and much...
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Yuriy Andamasov
Posted 17 Feb, 2019

Where is my OVA dude?

Greetings! As we mentioned in emails, OVA bit delayed, as always, there are reasons for that. First one is VMWare Ready validation that we hope will finish soon...
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Daniil Baturin
Posted 3 Feb, 2019

Contributors, contributions and badges

Looks like there’s quite a bit of misunderstanding regarding free subscriptions for contributors, who is eligible, and how people can contribute to the VyOS Pro...
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Yuriy Andamasov
Posted 28 Jan, 2019

VyOS 1.2 (Crux) released

VyOS 1.2.0 LTS is here. We are now merging the final bug fixes and preparing the images and cloud listings. Once the images are ready, we’ll send the download l...
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Yuriy Andamasov
Posted 17 Jan, 2019

VyOS 1.2(Crux) EPA3 available to subscribers

The new VyOS 1.2.0-epa3 early is ready and available to subscribers
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Yuriy Andamasov
Posted 15 Jan, 2019

We are hiring!

Hey Guys! Are you an open source evangelist, love Linux and know lots about traffic routing? Check the detail of Network Engineer position if you want to become...
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Yuriy Andamasov
Posted 11 Jan, 2019

wiki and new support portal

We making some changes to the wiki account registration process and introducing new support portal also encourage wiki/documentation contributors
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Yuriy Andamasov
Posted 2 Jan, 2019

VyOS 1.2(Crux)-EPA2 is here

VyOS 1.2.0-epa2 release is now available to subscribers and can be built from the crux branch.
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Yuriy Andamasov
Posted 26 Dec, 2018

1.2 LTS Access Subscriptions pre-order launch & VyOS 1.1.x EOL

Early Production Access for 1.2.0 LTS binaries is here. We are upgrading our production routers as well as routers of our existing customers and partners, these...
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Daniil Baturin
Posted 17 Dec, 2018

VyOS 1.2.0-rc11 is available for download

VyOS 1.2.0-rc11 is available for download from https://downloads.vyos.io/?dir=testing/1.2.0-rc11.
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Yuriy Andamasov
Posted 13 Dec, 2018

Last RC, Early Production Access, Educational and non-profit Access Subscriptions

Hello Community! We were busy as always doing coding and some more useful stuff, but it’s time for an update.
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Daniil Baturin
Posted 4 Dec, 2018

VyOS 1.2.0-rc10 is available for download

VyOS 1.2.0-rc10 is available for download from https://downloads.vyos.io/?dir=testing/1.2.0-rc10 Resolved issues The following issues have been fixed: If you sa...
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Daniil Baturin
Posted 26 Nov, 2018

VyOS 1.2.0-rc9 is available for download

We are getting closer and closer to the stable release. There are still bugs for a couple more release candidates, and some features we need to get in, but gene...
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Daniil Baturin
Posted 23 Nov, 2018

VyOS release model change

Now that we are approaching the 1.2.0 LTS release, it's time to make a big announcement. Perhaps we should have made it earlier, but we've been too busy coding....
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Daniil Baturin
Posted 19 Nov, 2018

VyOS 1.2.0-rc8 is available for download

A new release candidate, 1.2.0-rc8 is available for download from https://downloads.vyos.io/?dir=testing/1.2.0-rc8 As usual, it offers a few bugfixes, but also ...
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Yuriy Andamasov
Posted 12 Nov, 2018

VyOS 1.2.0-rc7 is available for download

Yet another release candidate, with more bug fixes and some experimental features. We are grateful to everyone who reported these bugs and sent us patches for t...
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Daniil Baturin
Posted 6 Nov, 2018

VyOS 1.2.0-rc6 is available for download

As usual, every week we make a new release candidate so that people interested in testing can test the changes quickly and people who reported bugs can confirm ...
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Daniil Baturin
Posted 1 Nov, 2018

The "operator" level is proved insecure and will be removed in the next releases

The operator level in VyOS is a legacy feature that was inherited from the forked Vyatta Core code. It was always relatively obscure, and I don't think anyone r...
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Daniil Baturin
Posted 29 Oct, 2018

VyOS 1.2.0-rc5 is available for download

As the tradition dictates, the new weekly release candidate is available for download Package updates The following packages have been updated: Linux kernel to ...
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Daniil Baturin
Posted 25 Oct, 2018

VyOS 1.2.0-rc4 is available for download

VyOS 1.2.0-rc4 release candidate is available for download from here The release includes multiple bug fixes and a few small features. You can view the complete...
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Daniil Baturin
Posted 15 Oct, 2018

VyOS 1.2.0-rc3 is available for download, with BGP large communities and new bugfixes

VyOS 1.2.0-rc3 release candidate is available for download from https://downloads.vyos.io/?dir=testing/1.2.0-rc3 Thanks to all people testing release candidates...
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Daniil Baturin
Posted 9 Oct, 2018

VyOS 1.2.0-rc2 is available for download, with fixes to wireguard and PBR

The second release candiate is available for download from https://downloads.vyos.io/?dir=testing/1.2.0-rc2 We are happy to see so many people test the release ...
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Daniil Baturin
Posted 8 Oct, 2018

First VyOS 1.2.0 release candidate is available for download

This month, the VyOS project turns five years old. In these five years, VyOS has been through highs and lows, up to speculation that the project is dead. Past y...
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Daniil Baturin
Posted 16 Sep, 2018

VyOS development news in August and September

Most importantly: all but one blockers for the 1.2.0 release candidate are now resolved. Quite obviously, for the release candidate, we want all features that w...
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Daniil Baturin
Posted 2 Sep, 2018

Build server maintenance

We are doing some maintenance on ci.vyos.net and the build hosts. They may be inaccessible for an hour or two. We will notify you if it takes longer than expect...
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Daniil Baturin
Posted 6 Aug, 2018

VyOS 1.2.0 development news in July

Despite the slow news season and the RAID incident that luckily slowed us down only for a couple of days, I think we've made good progress in July. First, Kim H...
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Daniil Baturin
Posted 28 Jul, 2018

On "run reset vrrp master"

I've just exorcised a ghost of the old VRRP CLI implementation — the "reset vrrp master" command. I thought it would go away with the vyatta-vrrp package, but i...
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